Applicant

Requirements United States citizenship

PharmD degree from an ACPE-

accredited college of pharmacy

Completion of an ASHP-

accredited PGY1 pharmacy

residency

Active pharmacist licensure in

any US state

Letter of intent

Curriculum vitae

Three letters of recommendation

including one from the program

director of applicant’s PGY-1 pro-

gram

Complete official transcripts

Application submitted via

PhORCAS

Experiences at the Brockton, Jamaica

Plain, and West Roxbury campuses

PGY-2 Geriatric

Pharmacy

Residency Program

Contact Information

John Roefaro, PharmD, BCGP, FASHP

Residency Program Director

Email: John.roefaro@va.gov

Phone: 857-303-2146

Please apply via PhORCAS

NMS code: 672654

Application deadline: January 18th

Our program is a partnership with

the Harvard Geriatrics Fellowship

and the Geriatric Research Educa-

tion Clinical Center (GRECC)

Join our team!

Core Experiences

• Interprofessional geriatrics clinic

• Palliative care

• Home-based primary care

• Long-term care

• Hospital in home

• Aging research

• Didactic learning with geriatric medicine

fellows through the Harvard Multicampus

Geriatrics Fellowship

Elective Experiences

• Primary care pharmacy clinic, with pharma-

cist as the provider with prescriptive privi-

leges under supervision of a physician

• Teaching certificate program

• Interprofessional renal clinic

• Interprofessional cardiology clinic

• Additional specialty clinics available

depending on interests

Residency Project and

Professional Presentations • Longitudinal geriatric residency research

or quality improvement project

• ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting

• Eastern States Conference or Geriatric

conference (AGS, ASCP, etc.)

Program Goals

The VA Boston Healthcare System offers a

one-year ASHP-accredited PGY-2 residency

in geriatrics. The purpose of this residency

program is to prepare the resident for a

career in geriatric clinical pharmacy prac-

tice. The graduate of this program will be

proficient in optimization of geriatric phar-

macotherapy, medication reconciliation

and med management in older adults, and

intimately familiar with multi-disciplinary

team assessment and management of the

older patient.

The resident will receive comprehensive,

intense, and individualized training in as-

pects of geriatrics from dedicated, passion-

ate, and expert pharmacy & geriatric medi-

cine faculty.

The hallmark of this program is the excep-

tional interprofessional team that the resi-

dent works with on a daily basis.

Our Geriatric Team

• Social worker and social work trainees • Geriatricians and geriatric medicine

fellows, medical residents from local

institutions • Nurse practitioner and nurse residents • Neuropsychology professionals, fel-

lows, and trainees • Partnership with audiology, neuro-

memory clinic

Resident Positions • There is one position available for the

PGY2 geriatric pharmacy program.

• The VA Boston PGY1 program accepts

four residents per year , one PGY2

HSPAL resident, and one PGY2 psychiat-

ric pharmacy resident per year

Resident Benefits

• Approximate stipend of $50,005

• Health and life insurance offered

• Paid leave: 13 vacation days

13 sick days

• 10 federal holidays

• Free parking at all three campuses